<!-- <?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//KDE//DTD DocBook XML V4.1-Based Variant V1.0//EN" "dtd/kdex.dtd"> --> <chapter id="faq"> <title >Questions and Answers</title> <qandaset> <qandaentry> <question> <para >I have installed &kde; 3, but &knode; does not exist in the <guimenu >K</guimenu > Menu.</para> </question > <answer > <para >Does the <guisubmenu >Internet</guisubmenu >entry exist? If not, maybe the kdenetwork package isn't installed (perhaps because your distribution possibly doesn't do this for you); if the entry is there, but you do not have a <guimenuitem >KNode</guimenuitem > item in it, you should try to open a &konsole; and run &knode; from there. Type</para> <screen ><prompt >%</prompt > <userinput ><command >knode &</command ></userinput > </screen > <para >If an error message appears that tells you that &knode; could not be started or found please check whether the file <filename >knode</filename > exists in <filename class="directory" >$<envar >KDEDIR</envar >/bin</filename > and that its permissions are correctly set.</para> </answer > </qandaentry > <qandaentry > <question > <para >When I start &knode;, a message appears in the task bar but suddenly disappears without &knode; being started.</para > </question > <answer> <para >Try to start &knode; from the &konsole; (see previous question) and keep attention for the messages displayed there: if they do not make sense to you mark them with your mouse and copy it to the clipboard; then, ask for help on one of the &kde; mailing lists or &kde; news groups.</para> </answer > </qandaentry > <qandaentry > <question > <para >I need an important article, but &knode; doesn't have it any more; where can I find this article?</para> </question > <answer > <para >You can find some extensive usenet archives at <ulink url="http://groups.google.com/usenet/" >groups.google.com</ulink > or <ulink url="http://av.com" >AltaVista</ulink >; they even contain articles that are several years old.</para > </answer > </qandaentry > <qandaentry > <question > <para >How do I open and read several articles at the same time?</para > </question > <answer > <para >Open the article with <guimenuitem >Open in own window</guimenuitem >.</para > </answer > </qandaentry > <qandaentry > <question > <para >My articles do not appear in the newsgroup.</para> </question > <answer > <para >When you publish an article it may be some time until your news server has it; wait several hours before you send the article again.</para > </answer > </qandaentry > <qandaentry > <question > <para >I want to keep an article; how do I archive it?</para > </question > <answer > <para >Choose the article in the article view and then use <menuchoice ><guimenu >File</guimenu ><guimenuitem >Save</guimenuitem ></menuchoice > to open a file dialogue; you can then save the article to a file. Another possibility is to copy the article to a folder.</para> </answer > </qandaentry > <qandaentry > <question > <para >Some set headers do not appear for several articles in the article window; am I doing something wrong?</para > </question > <answer > <para >This is not unusual because many headers are optional and often not contained in articles; in this case &knode; does not show those header lines.</para > </answer > </qandaentry > <qandaentry > <question > <para >Sometimes I see an article which refers to other articles but &knode; does not show any references; why is that?</para > </question > <answer > <para >This happens when somebody posted an article in another news group and checked the option <guilabel >Followup To</guilabel >; the article in question is then sent to your news group, but the referring article is absent. In many cases the poster tells the reason for his choice to set a followup.</para> </answer > </qandaentry > <qandaentry > <question > <para >When I want to answer an article an error message appears telling me that the external editor could not be started, but the editor is correctly set.</para> </question > <answer > <para >Have a look whether you entered the place-holder for a filename after the editor command; if not, enter it. If you want, for example, to use &kedit; enter <userinput ><command >kedit</command ><token > %f</token ></userinput ></para> <para >If the <token >%f</token > is absent, your editor cannot be run.</para> </answer> </qandaentry> <qandaentry > <question> <para >Why can I not receive data from my local news server?</para> </question > <answer > <para >If you use &knode; together with with a local news server, you must make sure that this server is correctly set up and started; for further details, please consult the documentation of your local news server.</para> <tip > <para >The availability of the local news server can easily be verified with the <command >telnet</command > program: open a console and type:</para > <screen ><prompt >%</prompt > <userinput ><command >telnet</command > <parameter >localhost nntp</parameter ></userinput > </screen> <para >Followed by that, the news server should respond with:</para> <screen ><computeroutput> Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 200 Leafnode NNTP Daemon, version 1.9.16 running at konqi.org </computeroutput > </screen> <para >You can quit the <command >telnet</command > session with:</para> <screen ><prompt >%</prompt > <userinput >quit</userinput > </screen> <para >If that does not work there is either no local news server set up or the server was not started; in this case, please consult the documentation of your local news server.</para> </tip> <para >If you are trying to connect to a news server on the Internet you need, of course, an open (dial-in) connection and to have set up &knode; to use your <acronym >ISP</acronym >'s news server; your <acronym >ISP</acronym > should be able to give you information about which news servers you can use.</para> </answer> </qandaentry> </qandaset > </chapter >